From a Rainbow to a Tragedy carries on from yesterday’s Sequin’s, Stardust, and Rust (Since Nat wanted more). If anyone wants more, I can continue…let me know!
In life, he’d been a rainbow, but in death, his life was spun into tragedy. Blackened. The rush to review his lyrics and find meaning in throwaway lines had been immense. Everyone from the Sun to the Sunday Times was analysing his words with a forensic flare. The word was deafened by his silence but the stark truth was that there was no black dog here.
In his short career he’d stepped on countless stages. Shunned numerous groupies. Sung to millions of people. But what did it all mean to be dead. Dead and gone at twenty-seven? A rainbow no more. A star in nobody’s sky. Not even the flicker of light on the edge of a flame.
That’s when the record company called in the shadows to dust up the prints, and shake down the band. That’s when the light really went out.
Truth is an elusive beast. But without knowing it, they couldn’t touch the back catalogue. They couldn’t mine the depths. They couldn’t climb the rainbow, they could only face the tragedy.
Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay
Yo Peter liked it! Has a “to the point” flow to it…which is to my liking for as you know I have a limited attention span.
Neat graphics also.
Cheers,
GMM
Thank you. Very kind of you to say. I wish I could take credit for the graphic. I’m with you on the attention span. If you liked the style of this piece, you might want to check out a series of shorts I wrote a year or so back in a similar style set in a bookshop. https://peterwynmosey.com/2018/09/27/word-count/
Still great. You definitely need to keep going. (I know someone linked to the band, and also the artist, of that album cover). So MANY stories which would fill a book, but he doesn’t want to do it, despite my offers to ghost-write it.
Oh Wow. I bet that would make a great book. It would be fun to ghostwrite it too no doubt!
I’m smiling right now. You appeared in my reader this morning. A gift for a Saturday.
Thank you
I’m smiling because you appeared in my comments. Did you miss me?
Musta done.